Dallas boxing fans were given a great lineup of boxers at the Dallas Fair Park Coliseum brought to us by Cora Marsaw of Marsaw/Jones Charitable Foundation, Inc., Cora Unlimited, and Antonio Leonard Productions.  It was an outstanding production by these sponsors and hopefully we can look forward for more to come.  The voice of North Texas Boxing, Roland Gamez was the fight announcer for the event and had the crowd entertained at all times.  Now, to the fights:

The first fight of the night started out with cruiserweights, Luke Vaughn, from Fort Worth, Texas against Chad Johnson (1-1) from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  This was the debut of Vaughn, who came out strong with good jabs. This was a feeling out round, and both fighters started off very good.  In the second round, Johnson was the aggressor and kept the pressure on Vaughn.  In the middle of the round, Vaughn took a late hit by Johnson and was sent to the corner.  After they started to fight again, Johnson caught Vaughn with a punch, and he went down.  Vaughn got up at the count of nine, and held Johnson off until the round ended.  In the beginning of the third, Johnson came out putting pressure on Vaughn and had him in the corner, but Vaughn managed his way out.  Johnson continued forward and got Vaughn on the ropes, but Vaughn got in a good right cross.  Although Vaughan was tired and had a bloody nose, he finished the round strong.  In the final round, Johnson came out advancing on Vaughn, with more pressure and quick jabs.  The final round ended with Johnson getting in the best punches, and although Vaughn fought on, it wasn’t enough and Johnson won the fight with a unanimous decision.

The next fight was an exciting and hard-hitting heavyweight bout between Bryant “BB” Butler (3-3-1, 1KO) of Fort, Worth, Texas, and his opponent, who he had fought three times previously, Ross “Da Boss” Brantley (2-14-1, 1KO).  After coming into the fight, with only a two day notice, Butler came out connecting with fast punches.  Brantley also had a good straight right hand and was connecting as well.  Both fighters then settled in, and the round ended with Butler finishing strong.  In the second round, Butler came out with connecting punches, but Brantley fought back with the sharp straight right hand.  This round ended with Butler finishing the round the best.  In the third round, Butler came out and connected with a good straight right, and had Brantley on the ropes.  Butler continued to put pressure on Brantley, but Brantley got in with another good straight right hand.  In the last ten seconds of the round, Brantley held on to the ropes in the corner while Butler was throwing punches, and he was warned for the infraction.  Both fighters came out strong and throwing punches in the middle of the ring at the beginning of the last round.  Bryant continued to pressure Butler and both fighters finished strong.  Bryant “BB” Butler was the winner, and avenged his previous loss to Brantley.

The third match was between cruiserweight Brent Urban, “the White Ghost” (4-2, 3KO’s), from Dallas, Texas, against Anthony Greeley (7-32-3) of Monroe, Louisiana.  In the first round, both fighters came out with precise sharp punches.  Urban caught Greeley in the corner with a good right hand, but Greeley came back with fast punches with both hands.  Greeley then caught Urban with a good punch and Urban’s nose began to bleed.  This didn’t seem to bother Urban, who finished the round with strong punches in the corner against Greeley.  In the second round, “the White Ghost” came out with strong body punches and had Greeley in the corner.  He continued to move forward at the end of the round and caught Greeley with a right cross and then an uppercut and Greeley went down.  Urban then “winked” at the crowd while Greeley was taking the count.  Urban then started throwing furious punches at Greeley in the corner, and the fight was stopped at 2:45 of the second round.  Numerous friends and family of “the White Ghost” were standing and shouting at the end of the fight.  When asked about his nose bleed early in the fight, he said it didn’t bother him at all.  This is an up and coming fighter and the fans should keep and eye on him. 

The “upset” of the night was between lightweight “Handsome” Hector Beltran (12-2-1, 10 KO’s) of Dallas, Texas against Justo “La Pantera” Vallecillo (6-10, 3 KO’s), from Nicaragua, and fighting out of San Antonio, Texas.  Both fighters came out jabbing with Beltran moving forward and finishing with good combinations.  In the second round, both fighters stayed in the middle of the ring throwing clean punches.  Vallecillo was doing a lot of bobbing and weaving and slipping punches in this round.  Both fighters finished the round strong.  In the beginning of the third round, Vallecillo was coming forward, but Beltran was throwing good counter punches.  Vallecillo began putting more pressure on Beltran and got him in the corner and punches were flying.  The round ended with Beltran connecting with strong punches.  The fourth round started with advancing pressure from Vallecillo, but Beltran fought back with faster counter punches.  Beltran appeared to have slipped while punching in close with Vallecillo, and the Judge called it a knockdown.  Beltran got up shaking his head in disagreement.  Beltran then came on strong and traded punches with Vallecillo, but Vallecillo countered with his own.  While against the ropes Vallecillo caught Beltran with a good punch, and Beltran took a knee down and was counted by the referee.  Beltran got up and the referee stopped the fight at 2:56 of the fourth round and “La Pantera” was the winner. 

The main event of the night was between 2008 United States Olympic alternate, Luis Yanez (4-0) of Dallas, Texas, against Sammy Gutierrez (5-6, 3Ko’s) of Saltillo, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico.  As expected, Yanez came out with a flurry of punches, but Gutierrez held his ground.  Yanez put pressure on Gutierrez, but Gutierrez had Yanez on the ropes and they traded punches.  The round ended with both fighters finishing strong.  The second round started this time with Gutierrez being the aggressor and moving forward.  While fighting in the middle of the ring, Gutierrez connected with hard body punches, as did Yanez.  Yanez finished the round with strong punches to Gutierrez with both hands.  In the third round, Gutierrez had Yanez backing up and had him in the corner, but Yanez was able to maneuver his way out of harms way.  Both fighters again finished strong at the end of this round.  Before the beginning of the fourth round, Gutierrez’s trainer was telling him to go to the body and use the uppercut.  Gutierrez didn’t get the uppercuts he wanted, but was moving forward the entire round.  Gutierrez had Yanez on the ropes and in the corner, but appeared to rest at the ten second count of the round.  The fifth round was a body punch fest, with both fighters connecting with very hard body punches.  In the final round, Yanez was standing in his corner and waving to the crowd.  In this round Gutierrez came out the aggressor, but was being caught by hard counter punches by Yanez.  Gutierrez continued to come forward and both fighters finished with very hard punches.   When asked how he felt about the fight, Gutierrez said he was caught with some good punches by Yanez, but he was never hurt.  After the fight, he said he planned to go to McAllen to see family, and he would like to come back to Dallas to fight again.  Yanez was declared the winner by unanimous decision and still has and undefeated record at 4-0.

Ryane Scott, of Flower Mound, Texas was to make his debut fight against Andrew Hartley (2-16, 1KO) of Arkansas, but unfortunately the fight was cancelled due to Hartley not making it to the weigh-in. We look forward to seeing Scott fight in action in the near future and we look forward to another Marsaw/Jones promotion.